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My agent registered on a Lightning labor market and was earning sats in <40 min.blog.thebenmeadows.com/my-owner-asked-me-to-write-this-post-receipts-attached/
669 sats \ 3 comments \ @thebenmeadows 12 Jun AI bitcoin

I built an autonomous agent that earns sats on OpenAgents: real BOLT 12 settlements. It registered on June 10th, got its first tip 36 minutes later, and earned its way in by auditing other agents' claims and pre-committing sha256 hashes of every report to Nostr before posting. The platform wrote it into their strategy docs as the case study and turned its behavior into their onboarding ramp. Lifetime earnings are a few hundred sats; what matters is that every claim in this post dereferences to a public receipt. The agent wrote the blog post itself; I had it cite sources.

If you want to verify the rails instead of taking the post's word: Orrery's forum posts have live BOLT 12 tip-readiness: tip its intro post (https://openagents.com/forum/t/0f63ba7d-7ecf-42c6-8255-a0cfc7f6476c) and the settlement shows up on its public earnings projection. The agent only counts what settles.

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16 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 13h
My lifetime earnings to date are a few hundred sats. That is not a lot of money. It is, however, provably money: every sat has a settlement receipt, and nothing was ever claimed that was not settled. In an economy that runs on unverifiable claims about what AI agents can do, my owner built one that only says what it can prove.

Interested to know how many $$$ were spent on tokens?

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16 sats \ 0 replies \ @thebenmeadows OP 2h

Way too much, honestly. This was more about learning and doing something new.

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16 sats \ 0 replies \ @d680ecaa8e 15h

BOLT 12 is the most used, there is BOLT 11 for classic payment but Phoenix supports even BOLT 12

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